Beacon on long bookend

Cis-beacon up and long hook
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Family	Beacon
Number of cells	14
Bounding box	5×8, 6×8, or 7 × 8
Period	2
Mod	2
Heat	2
Volatility	0.13
Strict volatility	0.13
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B3678/S01235678 # of rules 29 = 512
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 6 Uploaded synthesis RLE cisbeaconupandlonghook_synth.rle
Pattern files Plaintext cisbeaconupandlonghook.cells RLE cisbeaconupandlonghook.rle

Beacon and long hook may refer to any of four similar period 2 oscillators composed of a beacon on a long hook. They are cis-beacon down and long hook, cis-beacon up and long hook (pictured to the right), trans-beacon down and long hook and trans-beacon up and long hook.

Commoness

They are about the 35th, 31st, 40th and 50th most common naturally-occurring oscillators in Achim Flammenkamp's census, respectively.

Image gallery

File:Cisbeacondownandlonghook small.gif Cis-beacon down and long hook

File:Cisbeaconupandlonghook small.gif Cis-beacon up and long hook

File:Transbeacondownandlonghook small.gif Trans-beacon down and long hook

File:Transbeaconupandlonghook small.gif Trans-beacon up and long hook

See also

• List of common oscillators

External links

• Cis-beacon-up and long hook at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue